and then he's come out this weekend for a new fbi headquarters in washington and all of his influencers have been raging against the fbi headquarters for so long. so, no matter how disainppointi it is, he's the decider. and he deserves the right to change it if he feels like it. >> that is just to pick up on that fbi thing, this is a post on his social media platform last night where he's calling for abolish the fbi, the fbi did all of these horrible things that he said over and over again. and now he wanted the headquarters to be refurbished down, does he think he will get the trump hotel back which is right next door. >> we're hearing from the republican grassroots about this, they had a vote on it and so there were members that were getting hammered by some of their base over this and i heard from a few of them over the weekend that said, well, i wish i had known trump's position just a few weeks ago, now that i

have this in my back pocket it will be good to have, it was not on my bing he card for 2024. definitely not. >> guys thank you for everything this year. happy new year. >> happy new year. >> appreciate everything. and this week, my co-host jake tapper will sit down with house speaker mike johnson, be sure to watch that on "the lead," this wednesday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. thank you for spending your sunday morning with us. happy new year to you. the news continues next. massive influx of migrants. >> people who are scared. who are desperate.

>> the reality is there is just too many people. >> my message is this. do not just show up at the border. ♪ ♪ immigration man, can i cross the line ♪ ♪ i can stay another day ♪ ♪ let me in, immigration man ♪ >> we are the united states of america. none of us would have our children in that position. they are human beings. >> who gets to be part of the american political family? who could become an american? >> our country is full.

♪ >> how could anyone be anti-immigrant. we're all immigrants. >> the glory of america is the melting pot. ♪ >> the dreams that unfold here, are those that make america soar. >> people are willing to risk everything for the dream. >> we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. >> i'm fareed zakaria, welcome to a special hour on

immigration. >> a major surge of border crossings. >> that number could double in the coming days. >> reaching emergency levels. >> it is no longer just a partisan talking point or a hyperbolic claim on fox news. >> the number of people arriving from other parts of the world have been staggering. >> the country has been facing a surge of migration the likes of which has never been seen. >> streams of people every day, every hour. >> a record 2.4 million migrants were apprehended at the border last fiscal year. that shattered the record set the previous year. and knewler equals the total population of chicago. >> and the clock is ticking.

>> officials on the border, they're sounding the alarm. >> hundreds have been arriving every day to some border cities. sometimes tens of thousands of m migrants in a single month. >> all of our shelters are at capacity. >> homeless shelters have been overwhelmed. >> this is not even about politicals. it is about humanity. >> families have been sleeping on the streets. >> we have hundreds and hundreds and that is not the way we want to treat people. >> these border towns are no strangers to big migrations. but they have never gone through anything like this. >> that is a perfect storm of a system that is ultimately breaking. >> why is this happening now? it is a unique m the history of the hemisphere.

the pandemic and climate change with its brutal storms, droughts, and disease led to economic meltdowns, political unrest, and a perfect storm of migration. >> we have a planet of meme on the move. more people moving to more places thafr an before in the history of the world. >> cuban migration to the united states rose nearly 500% in a single year. colombia migration rose over 1100%. >> uphe'aval continues to the nation. >> over 11 million people have fled venezuela and other

countries. that is close to the skodus from war torn krukraine. >> the journey in itself is a life and death experience. >> 1-year-old brenda has no shoes. >> they come to el paso. a city with a proud history of welcoming migrants, overwhelmed by a global price is. >> leadership in el paso, was forced to declare a state of emergency there. >> they've come to small towns like eagle pass, texas. which saw more migrants in one month than it had total residents. >> even several hundred coming

into a town could have an impact on the psyche of the people that were there. >> the border turmoil has it a big impact on border politics. >> the shocking twist came out of the border region. >> zappara county, in texas, had not voted republican for president since the 1920s. mitt romney lost there. >> some blue went red. >> but donald trump in 2020 -- >> president trump cared about the border. >> county after county, voters have moved away from the democrats. >> republicans have made big gains all ang llong the texas border. >> flipped from blue to red. >> the fact that we're talking about south texas as a competitive area is a real shift. >> it is a trend we've seen

repeatedly all over the world. anger over immigration leads to hard right populous power. back in 2015, europe witnesses the largest refugee crisis since the end of world war ii. triggered by the brutal civil war in syria. european nations took in millions. it was a courageous humanitarian action. but it sparked a major political backlash. >> the british people have spoken and the answer is we're out. >> the u.k. leads -- >> we have got our country back. >> there was brexit in great britain. >> and marine le pen with growing tallies in france.

just last year in italy, a party descended from mussolini formed the most far right government there since world war ii. >> they were formed by the nazi movement. >> blamed liberal immigration policies for the country's problems. >> in sweden, a party neo-nazi roots -- >> issues like crime and immigration are front and center. >> -- won the second most seats in the country's parliament. >> i just received a call from secretary clinton. >> in the united states, we saw donald trump use the issue to get himself to the presidency. >> stop the steal. [ crowd chanting ] >> america showed up. >> and then began busting up all kinds of institutions that affected the lives of americans.

you never know until it is too late. if liberals won't defend the border, fascists will. >> america seems open these days to an anti-immigrant message. more than half of americans believe there is an invasion at the border. including 40% of democrats. and while three in four once believes that it was important for america's identity, just over half now think that is true. and with 2024 fast approaching, two of the most politically savvy governors have honed on this issue. >> we're dealing with smugglers, cartels. >> the biden administration is doing nothing. >> it is unprecedented and it is dangerous. >> in texas, governor greg abbott launched operation lone star. >> he's arrested thousands of

migrants for criminal trespassing. >> as if to gurd his state for a war. he's building a wall just like trump did. >> we are building the border wall in the state of texas. >> governor greg abbott has been sending migrants in bus loads. >> then there was the busing. >> where will the migrants be spending the night? >> thousands were dropped off with little warning. even on the coldest christmas eve ever recorded in the nation's capital. >> if you look at what is going on at the southern border, it is a total disaster. >> but the governor who outperformed everyone with his political theater -- >> the cartels are eating our lunch. >> was ron desantis of florida.

>> aren't you glad to live in the free state of florida. >> and he hatched a secret plan to fly migrants to the liberal island of martha's vineyard. a former counterintelligence agent was used to target migrants in san antonio with promises of housing and jobs. but when the migrants go the off their plane, absolutely no one was expecting them. they had been duped. >> there were just people wandering around on the island. knocking on doors who didn't understand why they were there. what became very clear very quickly was these people have been victims of a crime. >> without naming suspects, a texas sheriff as alleged unlawful restraint. governor desantis has denied any wrongdoing and has since

orchestrated nor flights of migrants to california. >> we are not a sanctuary state and we'll help facilitate that transport for you to go to greener pastures. >> he also pasted one of the harshest laws for undocumented ever seen. >> more racial profiling. >> frivolous stops. >> which could punish his state's economy to the tune of billions. >> legislation that doesn't solve anything, harms our economy. >> these migrant workers are the drivers of florida's economy. >> if he becomes president, desantis promises mass deportations ending birth right citizenship and using deadly force against migrants at the border. >> how did we get here? america has long prided itself as the happy vibrant melting pot, a nation that lives in

harmony with newcomers. but if we look back at our history honestly, the story is filled with resentment and restrictions and backlash. in the mid 1800s, fleeing a terrell famine at home, the irish flocked to america. they found a new home and jobs. but they're arrival also sparked the rise of the zenno phobic no nothing party. it called for restrictions on immigration and even violence, electing 100 congressmen and eight governors and a presidential candidate. >> what is happening now has a long lineage. >> america accepted chinese workers so that it could build out the west. that led to another violent backlash. and the chinese exclusion act which restricts a nation from america's shore.

but the ugliest crusade against immigrants happened in the 1920s. a huge wave was landing in america. the largest this country has ever seen. 100,000 people a month arriving at ellis island. italians, hungarians, russians. >> we have the so-called good white europeans, great britain, france, scandinavian countries, those are the real whites, the good whites. but then you these jews from eastern europe and then you have the italians from italy, southern europe. >> they were actually viewed as different races. >> in the 19th century, hungarians are race. check slow vaukan are race.

they are white-ish. there is skepticism about them. they are viewed as lesser. >> the new immigrants crowded into the tenements of the lower east side. food carts long the sidewalks and throngs of barefoot children played in the streets. >> many of the nationalities gather together in settlements of their own. >> they worship differently and they dress differently. >> they're speaking yiddish and they have italian food and these are ing thises that are new to me america. >> all of it horrified the wealthy elite. the blue bloods of park avenue and fifth avenue. >> they begin to freak out. they freak out and say we can't allow all of these hoards of new immigrants to come. they threaten everything that

they hold dear about america. >> so some of the nation's most prominent men got together and hatched a plan. >> these are men who saw themselves at the best and the brightest for sure. and these are respected people. >> they put their money and prestige behind scientists studying so-called inferior races. a pseudo science called you-genetics. >> it depends on your race and national origin. >> the goal, use science to weed out those deemed unfit. >> they weren't beating around the bush. they weren't speaking in code. they said it very straightforwardly. we want to basically freeze the racial/ethnic composition of the united states.

>> they believed that the new immigrants were physically and mentally defective. >> the more jews and italians, they have all of these negative qualities that we don't want. they're more likely to commit crimes or be mentally insane or ill. >> if it sounds like nazi germany, adolf hitler embraced american you genics. >> adolf hitler has this real praise for the united states. he said the united states is really on the money. we could learn from them. >> you genetics decided it was time to go to washington. they presented evidence to write a new immigrant bill. the harshest the country has ever seen. >> they have expert testimony and they have studies to show and they say to congress, it is

not just you being prejudiced or basis, there is science to back this up. >> we don't want people from other places coming. come on. >> the law passed, the immigration act of 1924 sharply cut immigration from across the world. putting rigid quotas on so-called undesirables. >> they shut the door and reduced immigration to the u.s. by 97%. >> the immigration act of 1924 made america a different country. it would get whiter. and more mono cultural. until a new revolution that changed everything. that story next.

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♪ the year was 1965. freedom and racial equality were on the march. from selma, to montgomery. >> we are standing before the forces of power in the state of alabama saying we ain't going to let nobody turn us around. >> and yet, america's immigrants were still chosen based on the color of their skin. asians, african americans and other groups were severely restricted. >> ellis island will be the first taste of the promised land. >> the raced based immigration system that began in the 1920s. which adolf hitler had admired was still going strong. >> those who do come, will come because of what they are and not

because of the land from which they sprung. >> but in the shadow of the statue of liberty, everything would change. >> with my signature, this system is abolished. >> president lyndon johnson signed a sweeping new measure declaring that america would be color blind when choosing immigrants. >> now is the time to make real the promises of the democracy. >> the law was a little known chapter of the civil rights movement. and it would change the face of america. setting it on a path to become a much more diverse country, this demographic revolution happened largely by accident. thanks in part to a congressman who wanted to keep america white. >> we are a prospering people.

wherever we live, or earn our livelihood -- >> by the 1960s, the author of the racist immigration laws of the 1920s had gotten exactly what they wanted. america was overwhelmingly white. >> they wrote laws to ensure that that would happen and it worked. >> immigration had plummeted. the percentage of foreign born americans dropped by nearly two-thirds. as a "new york times" headline had predicted, america's melting pot had come to an end. but since the war against nazi germany, there had been a growing consensus that a race-based approach to immigration was wrong. >> the nazis devised their own quota system. >> because of the awfulness of hitler-ism and the nazis, they

say, this is terrible. we need to rethink this and redo this. >> i shall ask for adequate and decent law for displaced persons. >> president harry truman despises the country's immigration laws. >> all of them have been behind barbed wire. >> and they shut many refugees out. even holocaust survivors. >> president truman signed a new bill. >> he signed a landmark ball allowing in more refugees. >> the first batch -- >> but he could not get rid of the race-based immigration system. president eisenhower was also not a fan of the old laws. >> the calculated pressures of aggressive communism. >> soviet russia parades its military strength. >> you have communist governments saying the united states is a racist country.

and we were very concerned about losing a propaganda advantage. >> what is more, earlier immigrant groups like italian americans said to be racially inferior -- were becoming part of american family. >> we, in america, are immigrants. >> a new idea was born. >> a people welded from many nations and races. >> america, the land of immigrants. >> we take it for granted that is how we've always imagined ourselves. that is new at this time. >> my country welcomed so many sons and daughters of so many countries and gave them a fair chance and a fair opportunity. >> one the early champions of that new idea was john f. kennedy. >> he was part of the immigration story.

the kennedys, irish immigrants. >> no distinction is made between the naturalized citizen. >> and he called for an overhaul of the immigration law. pushing for fair immigration was not only right in kennedy's view, it was good politics. >> he attracted a enormous crowd. >> since recent rivals were graining political clout, kennedy's support for immigration -- helped vault him to the presidency. in july of '63, he submitted an immigration bill to congress. >> all people can make equally good citizens. >> promising equal treatment of all peoples.

just a few weeks later, thousands marched on washington. >> free at last, free at last. >> thank god almighty we're free at last. >> the time when there is protests saying we've got to have a country founded on the equality of all people. we've said that in our documents before but now it is time to really live it out. >> but kennedy's immigration bill stalled in congress. >> the president's car is turning on to elm street. >> and then that november -- tragedy struck. >> the president of the united states is dead. >> vice president johnson was suddenly thrust into power. >> i need your help. i cannot bare this burden alone. >> he urged congress honor the

fallen president. >> no memorial or eulogy could morell quently -- more eloquently honor the previous president than the passage of the rights bill that he fought for so long. >> i urge every american to join in this effort. >> congress responded. >> all men are created equal. >> passing the civil rights act. the voting rights act. medicare and medicaid. >> i nation that was built by the immigrants of all lands. >> immigration was next on the agenda. >> we should not be asking in what country were you born. >> but the president faced a big obstacle, congressman michael

feean of ohio. >> he was a conservative democrat who led the house's main immigration committee. >> where is my immigration bill, god damn it. >> he was a staunch defender of the old quotas. determined to preserve america's white-ness. southern segregation like strom thurman warned of impending doom. there would be unlimited orientals and negroes, they feared, hordes of cana balls, a trojan horse at our gate. but thanks to johnson's legendary political skills, and the landslide election of 1964,

the president had the votes in congress. >> now, under the monument which has welcomed so many to our shores -- >> on october 3rd, 1965. >> those who seek refuge here in america will find it. >> the president signed the immigration and nationality act. every nation now had an equal shot at sending its best. the president and his allies did not expect the law to actually bring in a lot more immigrants. >> this bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill. >> congressman feean believes that america would stay white. he had negotiated a big concession in the bill. to give family ties more weight. >> people pledge proud dedication to their chosen land. >> he assumed that would benefit

white europeans since they already had relatives in america, but he would be proven very wrong. immigrants arriving after 1965 were over 75% noneuropean. coming from places like asia and latin america. they relied heavily on the family unification measures to bring in their clan. the very measures that congressman feean had pushed for. thanks to the 1965 act, america today is on the way to becoming a majority non-white country by 2045. that colossal demographic shift met a wave of resentment. >> the president wondered allow, why are we having all of these

people from shit hole countries coming. >> we don't take anybody. not any more. >> and those policies have led america into a new immigration crisis. >> 7 million workers banished. >> desperate for people willing to fo go to work. >> we've never had this many job openings. >> one hardly anyone is talking about. >> two job openings for every job seeker. >> and it is a big problem. >> and which could take money out of your wallet. >> the big question now, when will prices start dropping? >> that is coming up next.

populist conservatives are right. america is facing an immigration crisis. populous conservatives are right. america is facing an immigrant crisis. >> we are going to build a wall. [ crowd chanting ] >> build that wall.

>> our country is full. >> but the real disaster isn't that too many immigrants have made it to the u.s. it is that we arnt letting in nearly enough. >> the fertility rate in the united states fell to yet an all-time low. >> more and more american women are deciding not to have kids at all. >> america is the middle of a baby bust. >> the birthrate has fallen dramatically. it is below replacement level. >> not enough americans are being born to replace those who have died. >> historically, the safety valve for the u.s. has been immigrants. >> but starting under president trump, immigration to the u.s. plummeted.

cutting us off from the workers we desperately need. >> growing fears of a recession. >> and fanning the flames of economic decline. >> a massive labor shortage. >> the highest inflation in 40 years. >> the clock is ticking on social security. >> america has three options. >> you could either have more babies -- >> which many experts say just won't happen. >> or you could welcome more immigrants. or you could dwindle and fade into stagnation and irrelevance. i will favor the second option, welcoming more immigrants. >> instead, we've chosen the third. stagnation. refusing to let in more foreign workers according to one estimate could cost the u.s. economy $9 trillion by 2030. on the other hand --

>> if anybody in the world who wanted to move could move by one estimate, the total income of humanity would double. >> you heard that right. global wealth would roughly double. as workers from less affluent countries month of to join bustling economies. other nations are looking to cash in on that goldmine. >> immigrants flock in -- >> taking a page from america's old playbook. >> a number of countries noticed what it was that made america the richest most powerful, most dynamic country in the world. >> they've come with little but clothes on their backs. >> by welcoming people from all sorts of places. and allowing them to become citizens. >> take canada, for example. while america's population is 14% foreign born, canada's

population is 23% immigrant. and that number is about to rise even higher. late last year, canada announced a bold initiative. >> it is simple to me. canada needs more people. >> to bring in 1.5 million foreigners in three years. >> immigration isn't a threat to our northern neighborhood, it is an opportunity. >> we need people to arrive with their talents, with their hopes and dreams, to build our community and build our future. >> study after study has shown that immigrants are world class entrepreneurs. over 40% of fortune 500 countries were founded by immigrants or their children. >> immigrants are the people who are most enterprising. the most courageous. the most creative.

and these are precisely the people that could build an economy. >> immigrants in america are three times more likely to start a business than the native born by one count. >> the american dream is alive and well in every single grbt immigrant that i've worked with. >> canada expects a similar return on investment and it carefully chooses who gets to be part of the canadian dream. >> they came from many lands. >> since the 1960s, canada has forged a unique world reunowned approach to immigrants favoring skilling the country needs. >> they decided to cherry pick and they're making sure that they're getting the people who are really going to help them. >> canada's merit-based system has become the gold standard.

copied by australia, singapore, the united kingdom, and now germany. mired in its own labor shortage. >> around 2 million workers are needed across multiple industries. >> even a butcher shortage, which threatens the nation's bratwurst supply. berlin created its own merit-based system to fill crucial jobs. >> germany is in urgent need of more foreign workers. >> while other nations opened their doors, america is falling behind. >> other countries are going to be better than us some day. because we haven't allowing the best to come here any more. >> canada admits over a quarter million skilled immigrants and their families in 2021. the u.s. lets in 85,000 per year

despite having eight times the population of canada. the lucky few coming to america are just that, lucky and few. skilled worker visas are so rare these days, they are awarded by a lottery. >> how could with we drive home the point this system is bonkers. what if we added a lottery on top of it. this makes everyone understand this is capricious and ashity rary. >> tech giants shed jobs at a rapid clip. >> even winning the immigration lottery. >> historic layoffs at twitter, meta and lyft and amazon. >> is no guarantee that someone will stay in america. >> more than 200,000 tech jobs have been lost since the start of last year. >> when massive layoffs hit silicon valley, they likely included thousands of talented immigrants on temporary work

visas. they were forced to find a new job in just 60 days or leave the country. >> what is that, america has too many software engineers. it doesn't. nowhere has too many software engineers. these are essential people. >> some of the world's most promising talent kicked out of the door. other countries will be happy to have them. up next, i'll give you my thoughts on our broken immigration system. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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and now some concluding thoughts on immigration. join the millions of people taking back their privacy 10 years ago, the last serious effort and now some concluding thoughts on immigration. ten years ago, the last serious effort to fix america's broken immigration system collapsed. in april of 2013, a bipartisan group of senators, the so-called gang of eight, tried to push forward a package that included the usual sensible reforms that have been talked about for years. it included more border protections and sanctions against employeeing undocumented workers in the future. >> this debate goes to the heart

of who we are as americans. >> six years earlier, an even more ambitious and sensible reform effort spearheaded by orrin hatch and edward kennedy and endorsed by george w. bush, also collapsed. the log jamon immigration is one of the most tangible results of our polarized political climate. none of this will change until one central reality changes. america's current immigration system is broken. the border is in turmoil. millions of people are gaming the system. unless this stops, a system of laws and rules could establish and follow, america will not support immigration reform. the uncontrolled waves of migration hitting the southern border are making a mockery of the idea behind political asylum. in the wake of the holocaust,

after 1945, self countries around the world announced that if people had legitimate fears that they would be killed because of their ethnicity, religion or other such factors, they could apply for asylum status. it was meant for extreme circumstances for persecution of individuals. but now, however, millions come to the border of the united states and the same is happening in europe, and they all claim asylum. although some of them might genuinely be victims, many of them are searching for a better life. some of the victims of violence and gang warfare, but that is not what asylum status was meant to cover. after all, the same was surely true of earlier waves of migrants from say southern italy or ireland. today there seems to be no real

difference between most asylum-seekers and simple economic migrants. i don't blame the would-be immigrants for people seeking to come to the united states or france or italy. they are making a rational decision. they're claiming asylum gives them the strongest possible chance to stay. and while their cases are being adjudicated, they could often slip into the country and begin working anywhere. this is not the only part of the immigration system that is failing. the bureaucracy is understaffed and over worked. president donald trump deliberately jammed it up even more to the point that routine business visa applications from countries such as india could take months and months. some students cannot enter the united states even after getting admission and full scholarships. president biden deserves credit, he's trying to fix things. he's been criticized from both the left and right and it is a sign that he is doing something

right. but he needs to do more. as an immigrant myself, i am convinced that americans are not hostile to the idea of immigration. but they are hostile to lawlessness. to people getting in not through following rules and laws, but rather because they slip in due to chaos and crisis. the tragedy of the current situation is that america needs more immigrants and at its best it has a proud tradition of welcoming and assimilating them -- us. but as long as lawlessness rules, it keeps immigration alive as a political issue and makes sensible reform impossible and creates resentment, including among those legal immigrants. and the factors pushing more people toward the united states and europe will only increase. now is the time to device an entirely new process.

one that is not tethered to categories like asylum-seekers and normal migrants that recognized the realities of today and addresses them. other weiss, the politics of immigration will only get worse which will be a tragic loss for america. that is our report. thanks for watching this special hour on immigration. courting chaos. >> the u.s